Visual SLAM and structure from motion in dynamic environments: A survey

MRU Saputra, A Markham, N Trigoni - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2018 - dl.acm.org
In the last few decades, Structure from Motion (SfM) and visual Simultaneous Localization
and Mapping (visual SLAM) techniques have gained significant interest from both the …

[HTML][HTML] A review of visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping from filtering-based and optimization-based perspectives

C Chen, H Zhu, M Li, S You - Robotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (VI-SLAM) is popular research topic in
robotics. Because of its advantages in terms of robustness, VI-SLAM enjoys wide …

Real-time 3D reconstruction on construction site using visual SLAM and UAV

Z Shang, Z Shen - Construction Research Congress 2018, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
3D reconstruction can be used as a platform to monitor the performance of activities on
construction site, such as construction progress monitoring, structure inspection, and post …

Evolution of visual odometry techniques

S Poddar, R Kottath, V Karar - arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.11142, 2018 - arxiv.org
With rapid advancements in the area of mobile robotics and industrial automation, a growing
need has arisen towards accurate navigation and localization of moving objects. Camera …

Incorporating trust and self-confidence analysis in the guidance and control of (semi) autonomous mobile robotic systems

H Saeidi, Y Wang - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a trust and self-confidence-based autonomy allocation strategy to automatically
choose between manual and autonomous control of (semi) autonomous mobile robots in …

An experimental comparison of ros-compatible stereo visual slam methods for planetary rovers

R Giubilato, S Chiodini, M Pertile… - 2018 5th IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ego-motion estimation and awareness of the surroundings are crucial tasks to perform for an
exploration vehicle. Visual SLAM techniques allow to fulfill these needs by extracting …

Surface reconstruction from a sparse point cloud by enforcing visibility consistency and topology constraints

M Lhuillier - Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2018 - Elsevier
There are reasons to reconstruct a surface from a sparse cloud of 3D points estimated from
an image sequence: to avoid computationally expensive dense stereo, eg for applications …

Extended kalman filter for stereo vision-based localization and mapping applications

XI Wong, M Majji - Journal of Dynamic Systems …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Image feature-based localization and mapping applications useful in field robotics are
considered in this paper. Exploiting the continuity of image features and building upon the …

Visual-inertial SLAM method based on optical flow in a GPS-denied environment

C Chen, H Zhu - Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to present a visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping
(SLAM) method for accurate positioning and navigation of mobile robots in the event of …

Simultaneous localization and mapping for vehicles using ORB-SLAM2

M Andersson, M Baerveldt - 2018 - odr.chalmers.se
This thesis details work developing a containerized version of ORB-SLAM2 implemented in
the open source software framework OpenDLV as well as testing it both on established …